أَفَنَضْرِبُ عَنكُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَ صَفْحًا أَن كُنتُمْ قَوْمًا مُّسْرِفِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
صفح
discourse withdrawal
Withdrawal of continued address from an unreceptive audience.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1
Roots: صفح
Lemmas: صفح
Forms: صَفْحًا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Why this meaning was chosen
Most occurrences coordinate the action with pardon or forgiveness and direct people to leave faults unpursued; the cognate verbal noun can characterize this as gracious. In 43:5 the verbal noun modifies striking the reminder away from the addressees, preserving the same turning-aside profile with discourse rather than offense as its object. The compacted proposal was inspected as a candidate only and was not accepted.